pal up
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.99 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He'd happened to pal up with a Free French bloke who'd been in the orthopaedic wards, and when this fellow went home with a couple of bone grafts Rushleigh got an invitation to stay at his place down at Nice, buckshee."
- "... you could make a bit of conversation.' 'I don't want to. I'm on holiday with my family. I don't want to pal up with some bloke from the Pru, just because he's asked me to pass the sauce.'"
- "Normally in the CID you'd pal up with somebody, but nobody seemed to be his pal. 'He was creepy, a creepy type of bloke, you know. He always seemed to be hanging around, and he always seemed to be bloody listening to other people's[…]"
- "WHEN union-busting coal operators and the sowers of red philosopies "pal" up together it is the beginning of a situation that affects the entire country."
- "Governmental and/or non-governmental organizations may "pal up" with schools for migrant children to provide assistance — such as contributions, teaching and protecting the students' rights and interests."
- "Recreating the Scottish enlightenment-inspired liberalism of the 1790s, Ulster would cancel out a Catholic authoritarianism only too prone to pal up with the Tom Broadbents of British capitalism."
Usage
- Australian usage
- British usage
- Informal
- Intransitive verb